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by philjohn 4y ago
When you include the £37bn for test and trace, and £££ for vaccine rollout, yes, but that's somewhat disingenuous (and one could argue done by the Government to hoodwink). The other oft-trotted lie is that the NHS is "awash with m
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by philjohn 4y ago
Sorry, didn't see this until now. Yes, you use the Yubico Authenticator app, but it's entirely local only (runs fine with all networking switched off). It's available for Mac, Linux and Windows, as well as Android and iOS. On
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by philjohn 4y ago
Wow - US insurance and used car prices are crazy. For comparison, back in December 2020 I bought a 2-year old Ford Focus with 13,000 miles on the clock for £11,500, my insurance is £25 a month, but my fuel is closer to £160 a month, for aro
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by philjohn 4y ago
You don't. Have a look at Yubikey's - there, the seed is stored on the key itself, the calculation done on the key itself, and all the app does is read it all via NFC.
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by philjohn 4y ago
When I first started working in this area I was surprised to not see an increase around holidays - the numbers stay mostly flat throughout the year. Time of day, however, has a larger correlation (early hours of the morning).
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by philjohn 4y ago
It says from $73 per vial or pen on the site for me?
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by philjohn 4y ago
If government funding is based on coverage, would this fall under fraud?
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by philjohn 4y ago
Working in totally different tech stacks should be spun as a superpower. You're a polyglot, not wed to one technology, but can quickly and easily get up-to-speed on the best tool for the job!
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by philjohn 4y ago
Open up safe legal routes then, the lack of which is the main reason why the boat smugglers even have a business. But doing so would get asylum seekers out of the collective conciousness, which has been politically advantageous to the incum
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by philjohn 4y ago
Which is why it's good when there's a big outage and you need a ton of engineers in a call to debug it - Zoom is the only one I've seen that doesn't fall over.
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by philjohn 4y ago
How odd, I've got a 980 Pro 2TB that I've had since mid last year, and checking I'm already on that firmware version.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Good a time as any to mention powered computer dusters. Got one a few years ago and it's already paid for itself many times over.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Came here to say the same thing. So many pre-made kits using it, and plenty of people who DIY a sim racing cockpit with it. SimRacingGarage has reviewed some 6DOF rigs which use 8020 at their core.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Sudden death due to cardiac events in young, otherwise healthy people, is not a new phenomenon. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4969030/ Anecdata time: the nurse at the school I attended in the 9
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by philjohn 4y ago
Not everywhere. In the UK there's also employers NIC to pay, and depending on the details of the stock plan it's either payed by the employer (more common from companies I've worked at) OR by the employee.
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by philjohn 4y ago
And I wonder if this is the scanning equivalent of wet lithography for making microchips?
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by philjohn 4y ago
Definitely - in this case though, I didn't make the decision until about a month later as I had a few more final rounds scheduled for the weeks after.
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by philjohn 4y ago
I'm wondering how much of the critique in the article is down to the Arri Alexa look - it's pretty distinctive, so much so that I can usually pick out if a show or film was shot in it (latest example was watching "Dark"
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by philjohn 4y ago
I feel you - last time I decided to move jobs, back in 2019, I had a week where I had an onsite every day, and by the end I was just done.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Yup - they're the people ACTUALLY selling your data (and often for pennies)
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by philjohn 4y ago
I enrol any TOTP codes into 3 Yubikey's, and also keep the private key physically printed out. Although, for Google, I'm using FIDO.
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by philjohn 4y ago
This is why I still run all my Sonos on Sonosnet (lucky to live in a brick walled detached house, so 2.4 GHz noisy channels aren't a show-stopper). Never had any sync or pairing issues.
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by philjohn 4y ago
The YouTube algorithm always seems to find cool stuff - I've been suggested (and watched) this, LockPickingLawyer and Mentour Pilot.
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by philjohn 4y ago
I still maintain that learning Prolog 25 years ago as part of my degree (AI + Comp Sci) made me a better programmer.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Toshiba did indeed used to have them. My first laptop back in the early 90's was a Toshiba with a trackpoint.
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by philjohn 4y ago
I was the same - had ThinkPads for years after my first laptop (a Toshiba) in the early 90's had a trackpoint. The only thing that has come close to being good enough are apple trackpads. Yes, still have to remove fingers from home row
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by philjohn 4y ago
Except some of the reforms being discussed by Labour are things like finally doing away with GP's being employed by private practices and instead employed by the NHS. The last reforms, after the Con/Lib coalition came to power, wh
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by philjohn 4y ago
I'm always reminded of the announcement the pilot of BA 009 made when all four engines had failed: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damn
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by philjohn 4y ago
There is a way to avoid it, disable phased updates as detailed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34388575
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by philjohn 4y ago
This becomes even more stupid on the part of whomever was performing due diligence when you take a cursory look at the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20210128204248/https://withfrank... ht

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